CEET: Career Development

Career Development and Pilot Projects

Pilot Project Funding

The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) proudly announces the winners of the 2007 Pilot Project Competition:

Marisa S. Bartolomei, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Effects of Bisphenol A on Genomic Imprinting in the Mouse

Samantha Butts, MD MSCE
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division of Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology
Markers of Oxidative Stress in Premature Ovarian Aging

Ina Dobrinski, Dr.med.vet., M.V.Sc., Ph.D., Dip.ACT
Associate Professor of Large Animal Reproduction
Marion Dilly and Robert George Jones Chair in Animal Reproduction
Director, Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research
School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center
Use of a Novel Xenotransplantation Model to Study Effects of Chronic Exposure to Phthalate Esters on the Developing Primate Testis

Samuel Parry, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Co-Director, CEET Endocrine and Reproduction Disruption Core
Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Spontaneous Preterm Delivery

2006 Pilot Project Funding Recipients:

Vivian Cheung, M.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics
Biomarkers for Exposure to Ionizing Radiation

Richard Doty, Ph.D.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Influences of Nasally-Instilled Heavy Metals on Olfactory and Limbic System Pathology in Transgenic Mouse Models of Neurodegenerative Disease

Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Medicine
Chemopreventive Action of Phytochemicals in a Mouse Model of Lung Carcinogenesis

Pilot Project Funding Recipients for the Lung Cancer Initiative (Sponsored by the Abramson Cancer Center and the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET)).

Jeffrey Field, Ph.D.
Role of Reactive Oxygen in Tobacco-Independent Lung Cancer

Joseph S. Friedberg, M.D., FACS
Utilizing Photodynamic Therapy to Generate Anti-Tumor Vaccines in an Immunocompetent Murine Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Model

Anil Vachani, M.D. and Marcia Brose, M.D., Ph.D.
Unraveling the Genomic Changes in Lung Cancer

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Current Opportunities

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New Investigator Funding

The CEET New Investigator Program helps support the research mission of new investigators that have an identifiable major research theme relevant to the Center. New investigators (newly appointed research or tenure-track faculty) that have a natural affinity for the CEET can be nominated by the Chair of their Department for support from the new-investigator program. Research Core Directors can also nominate candidates from new faculty that may join their thematic areas. Funds can be used to support the salary and components of the research program of the investigator.

Eligibility Requirements
The New Investigator must have been appointed to the faculty as a Research or Tenure Track Assistant Professor within the last 12-months. They must have applied for membership to the Center and their major research theme must be in environmental toxicology. Evidence of this research emphasis must be documented in their curriculum vitae. If the new investigator has obtained R01 support from the NIH they will be ineligible to be nominated. New investigators must be nominated either by their Chair or by the Director of a Research Core, with which they have a natural research affinity.

Application Process
Requests for New Investigator Awards will be publicized when sufficient funds exist. The main criteria will be documentation of an exciting and competitive research program in environmental health or toxicological research.

New Investigators who receive support from the Center will bear the title “New Investigator of the Center of Excellence for Environmental Toxicology”. They will be required to acknowledge this title and Center support on all peer-reviewed publications that result from this support, irrespective of the timeframe in which the work is published. An annual report will be required for each of the three years that succeed the award to indicate which peer-reviewed publications and which externally funded research grants were awarded as the result of Center support.

NIH New Investigator Funding Opportunities
NIH Pathway to Funding Award (PA-06-133)
The NIH Pathway to Independence Award is an innovative, new program that will provide an opportunity for promising postdoctoral scientists to receive both mentored and independent research support from the same award.
NIH plans to issue between 150 and 200 awards for this program in the first year, and for the each of the next five years, amounting to approximately $390 million. The actual number and distribution of awards made by the NIH Institutes and Centers will depend upon the quality of the applications received and the results of the scientific peer review process.
The initial application submission date for the PI Award is April 7, 2006. Thereafter, the same standard submission dates for research career development awards will be used.
For more information…
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/new investigators/pathway_independence.htm

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES...

Pharmaceutical Research & Research Manufacturers Association of America (PhRMA) Foundation:

Predoctoral Fellowships in Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Pharmacology/Toxicology
Sabbatical Fellowships in Pharmacology/Toxicology
Research Starter Grants in Pharmacology/Toxicology

Health Outcomes Research Awards
Informatics Awards

Society of Toxicology Awards

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Career Development Awards

K Grants
Research Career Transition Awards

K22: Transition to Independent Positions

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